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Personal Shorthand at a Glance 

by Godfrey Dewey^ 

/f2^ Basic Alfahet 

24 Consonants 12 Vowels 

Sound Sign Name , As in Sound Sign Name As in 


p 

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pt 

pin, cup 

b 

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bl 

bin, cub 

t 

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tl 

ten, bet 

d 

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dl 

den, bed 

k 


kl 

come, back 

g 

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gum, bag 

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fan, safe 

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van, save 

h 

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thigh, bath 

ft 

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thy, bathe 

s 


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seal, race 

z 


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zeal, raise 

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assure, rush 

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azure, rouge 

Q 


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choke, rich 

j 


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joke, ridge 


a 

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am, pat, (pair) 

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alms, part, ma 

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e 

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age, late, may 

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it 

is, sit, army 

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ease, seat, me 

0 

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et 

odd, not 

0 

✓ 

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awed, naught, law 

u 

1 

vt 

up, ton, (turn) 

0 

1 

0 

open, tone, low 

u 

- 

tit 

full, could 

Q 

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u 

fool, shoe 



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Sound 

Sign 

Name 

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y 

d 

aisle, pint, by 

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oil, point, boy 

u 


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pure, few 

dl 


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out, power, now 


n v--/ en net, sin 

m fne mate, seem 

V y ye raid, dear 

\ y le laid, deal 

W we wet, quit 

y cJ ye yet, you 

h. he head, who 

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a ' ar about, utter, na¬ 
tion, china 

The neutral vowel, seldom used 
in shorthand 

ifi ' = the 

A wordsign or logotype for the 
definite article the 

* ^ capsign 

A sign written before a fonetic 
longhand word, below a short¬ 
hand word, to capitalize it 

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Write by sound, disregarding common spelling. Thus 
knife = n df = ^, ^neet = mit = — . 

To write any word, join together in order the signs repre¬ 
senting the sounds of that word. To read any word, pronounce 
together in order the sounds represented by the signs. Thus 
man (Z^ , out ^ _- , it n — , on _ __ army ^ . 


Medial vowels, particularly e and u, are sometimes omitted, 
as in 7nen CZ , said ^., some , her . 


Write consonant stems always from left to right or from 
top to bottom. may thus be written either up or down. 

Never join any hook vowel to a following simple stem with¬ 
out angle, except on the back of a curve, as in case . . 

Where ^ ^ i» - - will not join the preceding or following sign 
at an angle, write instead ^ . 

Write punctuation marks except - ( ) — just as in longhand. 

Initially, write f o— \ ^ o^' for the 

consonant difthongs sp- st- sk- sn- sm- si- sw-; that is, 
when and only when no vowel sound occurs between the stem 
consonant and the s. 


Medially (whenever more convenient than -—- or ), or finally 

(for plurals, possessives, etc., in -s -z or -ez, or for consonant 
difthongs ending in -s or -z), write a small circle for s or z. 

Write 1 l^^NX M'L 

for the consonant difthongs pr- br- tr- dr- kr- gr- fr- hr- Sr- 
as in pray, bring, train, drive, crowd, grow, free, thread, shrewd. 

Write f f \ S 9 for the consonant 

difthongs pi- bl- kl- gl- fl-, as in play, blow, clear, glad, flow. 


\\ rite a — o» for the particularly important 

consonant compounds hw- str- -nt -nts, as heard in such 
words as when, strike, went, points. 

n is sometimes written by a large following hook, written 
with right motion or like motion. 

San is written by a following loop (left motion or like motion), 
which is written thin for San or iSan, thick for eSan. 

A few prefixes, suffixes, and special forms are abbreviated. 

Write the i6 common words following, which will make up 
over 25% of all your writing, by the short forms or wordsigns 
shown. 


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of 


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which 


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for 

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Join a few short and common words to form short and very 
common frases, such as 
and the -i is the into =- 


Study the preceding pages for an hour or less, then read 
the following selection. You can do it — without fail. 




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SEP 2 3 1922 


P S —^Write Personal Shorthand 

Personal Shorthand, the simplest written record of the 
spoken word, is meant for you—to use for personal corre¬ 
spondence, original composition of any kind, lecture, con¬ 
ference, or telephone notes, abstracts, or memoranda. 
For any longhand purpose Personal Shorthand {P S for short) 
will save | or | of your time and | of your effort. P S 
notes need never be transcribed, for they are permanently 
and explicitly legible, today or tomorrow, next month or 
next year, by you or by any other P S writer. 

Personal Shorthand will not make you a verbatim re¬ 
porter in 5 hours or 7 days of easy work. It will teach 
you to write absolutely legible shorthand at 2 to 3 times 
your best longhand speed, in ^ to f the time required by the 
best of other shorthand systems. 

These unique results are possible for 2 main reasons. 
1, Personal Shorthand is based on original data secured 
by exhaustive research into the relative frequency of the 
simple sounds and commoner sound combinations of 
English and the relative facility of the possible signs and 
typical sign combinations of shorthand, and scientific 
analysis and study of the principles of shorthand con¬ 
struction. 2, It is not a professional style of shorthand. 
No style of shorthand well adapted to the professional 
writer can possibly be at the same time well adapted for 
general personal non-professional use. 

Personal Shorthand is peculiarly adapted to the needs of 
the junior high school, for a single year of study will provide 
for the college preparatory student or general student a 
tool of immediate and permanent value, and will have 
for the commercial student a high prevocational value. 

If you have studied this leaflet for an hour you are 
already familiar with every essential principle of Personal 
Shorthand. Brief study of the text and exercises, alone 
or with the help of a teacher, will soon make the system an 
indispensable tool of your daily life. 

For full information write 

World Book Company 

Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York 

Ready July, 1922. 


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